Wow. 5 Years Ago Today - July 17, 2024

Dear Family, Friends, Partners in Ministry,

Wow. 5 years ago today we were pouring concrete. Here are a few pictures from that day 5 years ago.

God has been good to us. Thank God for all of you who gave to this building project through giving to Northern Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM). The building has now been officially named the "LLC - Lighthouse Learning Center" based upon the original vision the Lord put in our hearts for Chiangrai to have a "Lighthouse" for the nations. Here is what the building looks like today.

As I write this note this morning, there are about 20 Christian Pastors/Church leaders (including 3 from our own team) who are studying for their Master of Divinity degree meeting in our building this whole week as they study an intensive course organized and operated through the Thailand Baptist Theological Seminary (TBTS) where Ajaan Chaiwat serves as the leader of the TBTS. We are thankful to God to play a small part in using this facility to reach some of the least reached people groups in our world today but also to build up future Christian leaders in this part of God's world.

May God richly bless you. Thank you for your generosity and for sending us to Thailand. Any gift you would like to make to our normal, everyday ministry, no matter how small or how large, helps us reach and disciple people whom many are the first persons in their entire families to know Jesus Christ.

Until all the people living in and around Northern Thailand have a chance to become followers of the One True God and His Son Jesus Christ.

Michael

“For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5

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Financial support can be given through NTIM....

Northern Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham, AL 35260 USA Main Website: www.gontim.org

NTIM is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in the USA. We are committed to connecting people in need with people who care and are focused in the heart of Southeast Asia where poverty is high, education is low, needs are great, unreached people groups (UPGs) are all around us, and the love and message of Jesus is needed to transform lives. 

Reaching, Teaching, Discipling, Equipping, Training, and Serving People in God’s World, through acts of love and compassionate as the light of Christ, is what NTIM and our ministry team is all about.

Do not believe everything you hear . . . . July 16, 2024

Word of Encouragement from Northern Thailand - July 16, 2024

There are many voices speaking into our lives today and many of those voices want to take us down the road of destruction and heart ache. But God has another path and a better path, a path that leads to peace and healing.

As a result of God’s desire to bless us, God moved the Apostle of Love, also known as the Apostle John, to write 1 John 4:1-6 to encourage every follower of Jesus Christ to not believe everything that you hear but to become what I like to call “A Discerning Christian.” Here is the message that I shared with our church family here in Northern Thailand this last Sunday July 14.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkitHOgysY

This teaching is in both English and in Thai. My Thai translator was the first Thai person to be led to our Lord Jesus through the ministry of Baan Athitaan Church some 20+ years ago. She is also the first Thai person in her entire family to become a follower of Jesus and she is from the 3^rd largest unreached people group in Thailand. 

Listen to and be blessed and then share this link with friends and other brothers and sisters in Christ that they too might be blessed and grow toward more Christ likeness. Blessings from God and from Northern Thailand.

Thank you for your faithful prayers for us and for God’s work in and through Baan Athitaan Church.

May God richly bless you. Thank you for your generosity and for sending us to Thailand. Any gift you would like to make to our normal, everyday ministry, no matter how small or how large, helps us reach and disciple people whom many are the first persons in their entire families to know Jesus Christ.

Until all the people living in and around Northern Thailand have a chance to become followers of the One True God and His Son Jesus Christ.

Michael for the team...

“For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5

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Financial support can be given through NTIM....

Northern Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM), P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham, AL 35260 USA Main Website: www.gontim.org

NTIM is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in the USA. We are committed to connecting people in need with people who care and are focused in the heart of Southeast Asia where poverty is high, education is low, needs are great, unreached people groups (UPGs) are all around us, and the love and message of Jesus is needed to transform lives. 

Reaching, Teaching, Discipling, Equipping, Training, and Serving People in God’s World, through acts of love and compassionate as the light of Christ, is what NTIM and our ministry team is all about.